The Cambridge Companion to Miracles

This book is a comparative study of miracles in the major world religions and explores the value of miracles in religious belief.

Graham H. Twelftree (Edited by)

9780521899864, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 April 2011

356 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.69 kg

The miracle stories of the founders and saints of the major world religions have much in common. Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in not only Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism, but also, indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our largely secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief. The miracles of Jesus are also contextualized through chapters on the Hebrew Bible, classical culture to the Romans, Second Temple and early rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. This book provides students with a scholarly introduction to miracles, which also covers philosophical, medical and historical issues.

Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Introduction: miracle in an age of diversity Graham Twelftree
Part I. Fundamental Issues: 1. What is a miracle? David Basinger
2. Meanings of miracles Robert Larmer
Part II. Miracles in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: 3. The Hebrew Bible R. Walter L. Moberly
4. Classical culture to the Romans Robert Garland
5. Second Temple and early Rabbinic Judaism Lidija Novakovic
6. Jesus Barry L. Blackburn
7. Miracle in early Christianity James Carleton Paget
8. The Middle Ages Benedicta Ward
Part III. Miracles and Major Religions: 9. Traditional religions Fiona Bowie
10. Hinduism Gavin Flood
11. Islam David Thomas
12. Buddhism Rupert Gethin
13. Christianity Ralph Del Colle
14. Judaism Kenneth Seeskin
Part IV. Miracle Today: 15. A history of the debates on miracle Colin Brown
16. Philosophers on miracle Michael P. Levine
17. Patient belief in miraculous healing – positive or negative coping resource Niels Christian Hvidt.

Subject Areas: Humanist & secular alternatives to religion [HRQA], Spirituality & religious experience [HRLK], Theology [HRLB], Other non-Christian religions [HRK], Judaism [HRJ], Islam [HRH], Hinduism [HRG], Buddhism [HRE], Christianity [HRC], Philosophy of mind [HPM]